Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon HD 3870
572
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon HD 3870
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
RV670
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
777 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
497.3 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.43
222.5
Memory type
GDDR4
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2252 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+